Category: Project Construction Updates

Building Connections: Maywood Hills Elementary Students Put Imprint on Project

December 3, 2024
By: Brian Aske, Education Market Director, FDBIA
This fall, second and third graders from Maywood Hills Elementary School in Bothell, Washington, reached out to our team with artwork and heartfelt thank you letters for the work crews are doing on campus. The students’ letters include thoughtful questions to feed their natural curiosity about how things are built. To show our appreciation and… read more

A Seismic Transformation for the State of Oregon’s North Valley Complex

September 13, 2024
By: Ben McLean, Communications Specialist
In communities across the Pacific Northwest, residents live with the knowledge that “The Big One,” a mammoth seismic event involving the Cascadia subduction zone, could strike at any time. The heightened awareness around this and other natural disaster scenarios has accelerated a trend evident for the past decade, especially among public owners. To maintain operational continuity in… read more

North Valley Complex: Using Wood Salvaged From Oregon’s 2020 Wildfires

April 22, 2024
By: Lauren Holmes, Project Executive
While transforming a Wilsonville, Oregon, warehouse into a lab building and workplace for several State of Oregon agencies, Lewis and SERA Architects incorporated wood salvaged from the devastating wildfires of 2020 into new finishes throughout the reimagined space. These wooden slats can be found in “nodes” built along the North Valley Complex's circulation paths, adding… read more

Deploying Dusty, Lewis’ Robotic Layout Sidekick

February 14, 2024
By: Lewis Team
Dusty, our robotic layout sidekick, returned to action last week at a corporate client’s office TI in Redmond, Wash. Dusty used a digital model to print wall layouts directly onto the project floor in one pass, with markings to guide our framing, HVAC, plumbing, and electrical trade partners during their scopes of work.  Automating… read more

Building While Caring: Minimizing Construction Impacts in an Active ED

January 26, 2024
By: Ben McLean, Communications Specialist
Lewis is midway through a 57,000-square-foot emergency department (ED) renovation project at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center (PSV) in Portland, Oregon. The project involves expanding the patient room count from 52 beds to 72. It also includes a new and improved imaging department, universal exam rooms, the relocation of the behavioral health unit and the… read more

North Eugene High School and the Modern Learning Environment

January 16, 2024
By: Elsa Manning, Senior Marketing Specialist
Many of us were lucky to have ample windows in our schools growing up. Windows allow natural light and make classrooms and common areas feel more open, which has been proven to support learning and boost mental health. In recent years, the trend toward better daylighting has become a must-have in today’s learning environments. Research… read more

Tilting Up Wall Panels at Terminal 106

September 27, 2023
By: Lewis Team
In September, Crutcher Structures crews began erecting concrete tilt-up wall panels by the dozen at Terminal 106's Seattle Metro Logistics, a two-story warehouse and distribution center being built for Trammell Crow Company just south of downtown Seattle. Within two weeks, about two-thirds of the project’s 156 exterior panels were installed. Each panel was first cast… read more

Building Rainier Square, Part 2: So, How’s This Thing Going to Get Built?

September 9, 2019
by Jordan Gevers, Marketing Manager
In part one of this series, we gave an overview of Rainier Square’s structural core: a series of prefabricated sandwich modules, hoisted into the sky, set in place between columns, welded, and filled with concrete. Simple, right? On paper, yes. Put a piece in place, weld it, then fill it. But that skips all the… read more